Frank Finlay
Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK — Aug 06 1926• Died Jan 30 2016
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Biography
Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony R…
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Frank Finlay's Credits
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Play for Today
Heartbeat
Howard Franklin
BBC Play of the Month
Marcus Brutus
Merlin
Anhora
Tales of the Unexpected
Arthur Pearson
Theatre 625
Dr Dee
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Coram / Sergius
Z-Cars
Drama 61-67
Albert Hope
Prime Suspect
Arnold Tennison
Blackadder
The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Lovejoy
Harold Plumb
The Pianist
Father
The Voyeur
Nino Rolfe
The Key
Nino Rolfe
The Grand
Edward Lawrence
Lifeforce
Dr. Hans Fallada
Studio 4
Fernand Destayac
The Younger Generation
Ross Mayer
Life Begins
Eric Thornhill
The Longest Day
Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
The Sins
Uncle Irwin Green
Laurence Olivier Presents
Peppino
Longitude
Admiral Wagner
Johnny and the Bomb
Tom Maxwell
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
General Bulstrode
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
Alcuin
How Do You Want Me?
The Lost Prince
Asquith
The Wild Geese
Fr. Geoghagen
Count Dracula
Professor Van Helsing
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
Alexander 'Alex' Combe
Fifty Shades of Erotica
(archive footage)
A Christmas Carol
Jacob Marley
Hot Enough for June
British Embassy Porter
The Three Musketeers
Porthos / O'Reilly
The Sandwich Man
Second Fish Porter
Armchair Theatre
Franco Angelo
Murder by Decree
Inspector Lestrade
The Statement
Commissaire Vionnet
Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Peter Manson
Stalin
Sergei
The Jokers
Harrassed Man
A Study in Terror
Inspector Lestrade
Cromwell
John Carter
Twisted Nerve
Henry Durnley
The Four Musketeers
Porthos
The Burning Shore
Garrick
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)
Enigma
Canarsky
Othello
Iago
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Igor Bounin
Casanova
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Inspector Clouseau
Supt. Weaver
Robbery
Robinson
The Deadly Bees
H.W. Manfred
The Return of the Soldier
William Grey
The Return of the Musketeers
Porthos
The Thief of Baghdad
Abu Bakar
Casanova
Razetta
Eroica
Josef Haydn
Gumshoe
William Ginley
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
Sitting Target
Marty Gold
Erebus: The Aftermath
Justice Peter Mahon
Sakharov
Kravtsov
The Spanish Civil War
Self - Narrator
Target Luna
Conway Henderson
Shaft in Africa
Vincent Amafi
Life for Ruth
Teddy's Father
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean
King of the Wind
Edward Coke
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Chaplain
Arch of Triumph
Col. Boris Morosov
The Martins
Mr Heath
Assault
Det. Chief Supt. Velyan
Private Potter
Capt. Patterson
Doctor in Distress
Corsetiere
Station Jim
Riorden Snr
Mountain of Diamonds
Garrick
The Molly Maguires
Davies
Limited Edition
John Rathbone
The Wild Affair
Drunk
In the Secret State
Frank Strange
Another Bouquet
Virgin Mary
Monsignor
Ring of Darkness
Paul
Stiff Upper Lips
Hudson Junior
The Comedy Man
Prout
The Body
Narrator
Royal Variety Performance 1984
Count Dracula
Abraham van Helsing
The Waiting Room
Roger
Mona
Captain Manson
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Father
Lighthouse Hill
Alfred
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Mike's Dad
Danny Jones
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Peppino
Dear Brutus
Dearth
Much Ado About Nothing
Dogberry
The Ploughman's Lunch
Matthew Fox
For My Baby
Rudi Wittfogel
The Lie
Andrew Firth
Julius Caesar
Brutus
Cthulhu Mansion
Chandu
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
George Dabernon
Sparrow
Father Nunzio
Van der Valk and the Rich
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
An Exchange of Fire
Pavel Rhele
A Mind to Murder
Professor Etherege
Betzi
Napoleon
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
The Hard Knock
Franco Angelo
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
The Merchant of Venice
Shylock
Nineteen Nineteen
Sigmund Freud (voice)
The Other Side
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
The Informers
Leon Sale
The Spare Tyres
Council foreman
The Making Of Lifeforce
Self
84 Charing Cross Road
Frank Doel
The Piano Tuner
Wilfred Tilley
Olivier Talks About Othello
(archive footage)
Blood of the Lamb
Albert
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Shahriar